Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naturalists, both from Europe and the United States. Because of the diversity of its geography, with temperate conditions in the highlands, and those typically tropical in the coastal lowlands, it has yielded a wealth of new plant and animal species. Botanists, visiting Central America in times past., laid stress on the higher plants or phanerogams, obviously attractive. As a result, there has been comparatively little study of those lower forms of the plant world, the cryptogams, which form a most important and numerous host...
...Gallery XIV of the Fogg Art Museum, which includes some objects from the Fogg Art Museum collection as well as notable loans from the Morgan Library, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., and various others. The exhibition includes outstanding examples of work from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, laying stress upon the important periods of work done during that time...
...exports 1,000,000 (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). For 1930 Mr. Chrysler named no figures, spoke about a return to "normal conditions" and "satisfactory" production. General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloane Jr. said that he saw eventual stabilization at 5,500,000 cars a year, was careful to stress the fact that his company has very diversified manufacturing interests. Standard Statistics in a five-year forecast of the industry last week predicted a future annual production of 5,200,000 cars, 500,000 less than last year, then said the future of the automobile industry "depends upon the disposition...
...French High Commissioner during the War and vaunts his nickname of "L'Americain" (TIME, Nov. 11). M. Tardieu knows that at least 99 million out of 119 million U. S. citizens are imperfect in their French, and that the State Department at moments of stress is capable of considerably toning down its summary of an unwelcome diplomatic note...